Peter Hoeg`s Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow is a novel that has been translated into countless different languages & has been made into a film starring Juliette Binoche. Yet despite the film’s release, the text remains the best, most engaging of all forms for Hoeg’s thriller. One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident almost immediately, a child playing gone wrong- but Isaiah’s neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. The novel itself is superb, its wit & subtlety making the tight plotting move along with incredible tenacity, reeling the reader in & scarcely letting go. An extraordinary, poetically sublime achievement. ...

How do you find a missing actress in a city where everyone`s playing a role? A mystery, a love-story & a darkly beguiling tale of secrets & reinvention set in 1960s London. `FABULOUS!` Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew`s Last Stand Soho, 1965. In a tiny two-bed flat above a Turkish cafe on Neal Street lives Anna Treadway, a young dresser at the Galaxy Theatre. When the American actress Iolanthe Green disappears after an evening`s performance at the Galaxy, the newspapers are wild with speculation about her fate. But as the news grows old & the case grows colder, it seems Anna is the only person left determined to find out the truth. Her search for the missing actress will take her into an England she did not know existed: an England of jazz clubs & prison cells, backstreet doctors & seaside ghost towns, where her carefully calibrated existence will be upended by violence but also, perhaps, by love. For in order to uncover Iolanthe`s secrets, Anna is going to have to face up to a few of her own... ...

How do you find a missing actress in a city where everyone`s playing a role? `FABULOUS!` Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew`s Last Stand ` Scintillating` Observer ` Vibrant & atmospheric` Daily Express Soho. 1965, When an American actress disappears from the Galaxy Theatre, her young dresser, Anna Treadway is determined to find out what happened to her. Anna`s search will lead her through a London she barely knew existed: a city of reggae clubs & back street doctors, of dangerous prejudice & unexpected allies. She is aided by a disparate group of emigres, each carrying secrets of their own. But before she can discover the truth about Iolanthe, Anna will need to open herself
- to her past, her present & the possibility of love.
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Having announced her plans to quit her job & backpack around South America, humourist & gonzo journalist Amy Baker found herself on the receiving end of a whole bunch of over-the-top & seemingly unnecessary advice. Amy shrugged it all off of course... that is, until she ran into trouble. After falling into a crevasse, swimming in crocodile-infested waters, dodging cocaine con artists & encountering handsome soothsayers, Amy soon starts to wonder if her Mum, boss & Carol from reception really were onto something. Weighing up their advice against that of known ‘ Clever People’ like Tina Fey, Salvador Dalí & Mother Teresa, Amy establishes once & for all who it might actually pay to listen to. ...

` So long, ` called the harbourmaster. ` Don`t run into Missee Lee!` The Swallows, Amazons & Captain Flint don`t pay much heed to the harbourmaster`s friendly warning as they set off for China. They are on a round-the-world voyage aboard the Wild Cat & it`s been plain sailing for a hundred ports. But when Gibber, the ship`s monkey, accidentally sinks their faithful boat things take a serious turn for the worse. Separated, captured, miles from home, the Swallows & Amazons are about to meet their fate & the pirate who holds it: the legendary Missee Lee... In the ` Backstory` you can learn to decipher Nancy`s Morse code & find out about the real life inspirations for Missee Lee Vintage Children`s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds & the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book & Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. ...

Jack Searle is an American widower, bringing up his two stepdaughters Lidia & Marina alone in the border town of Laredo after losing his wife to cancer. Jack often takes the girls to visit their Mexican family over the border in Nuevo Laredo. Marina, the elder sister, persuades him to let her go there without him one night, to attend a concert with her cousin Patricia. Jack wants to say no
- Nuevo Laredo is a very dangerous city, controlled by drug cartels & devastated by violence & corruption. But eventually he agrees
- she`s growing up & he has to let her have some independence. Marina & Patricia head out to the concert, but they never come back. A frantic hunt for them begins, with Jack leading the way. But this is Nuevo Laredo, & girls go missing all the time here. They`re lucky to find that a good cop
- Gonzalo Soler
- is leading their investigation, but soon the whole police force is suspended due to endemic corruption. The army take over the city, & finding the missing girls is not their priority. To survive this nightmare & have any chance of finding Marina & Patricia, Jack & Gonzalo must take the law into their own hands. Their efforts to find the girls become more & more dangerous, & they uncover truths about the city of Nuevo Laredo that neither one of them ever wanted to face.



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In the Yugoslav wars tens of thousands of Europeans vanished. In a desperate need for news, their families prayed for a message, begged for the truth & fell for blackmail. In almost every case, the missing had been murdered. But without word, witness or body, the bereaved could not accept their loss. Their torment was drawn out as long as ten, even eighteen years
- for many it continues still. Children waited for parents to return from the grave. Mothers made up their dead son`s beds. Old men couldn`t bury their descendants. The living also lost their lives. For the first time in war DNA has been used to match blood & bone, reuniting families divided by death, enabling survivors to find closure & to begin to live again. These fifteen, heartbreaking Balkan stories
- told by Rory Mac Lean & Nick Danziger, two of Europe`s most sensitive chroniclers
- represent a tiny proportion of an immense tragedy. ” Missing Lives” gives a voice to the unacknowledged suffering of these families, to all who went missing by force, & reminds us that in war
- whatever the technological advances
- there is no greater loss than the disappearance of those we love.




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The hilarious true story of an amateur boating adventure. Yacht racing. A world of privilege & money. Beautiful women, bronzed men, & Simon le Bon explaining that he used to be in a b&. It`s not like that for everyone. Somewhere much, much further down the ladder it all looks very different. As a teenager, Michael Hutchinson raced tiny plywood dinghies on Belfast Lough, amid shoals of sewage-eating jellyfish. For him, sailing became the kind of obsession that often as not ends with a psychiatric intervention. Turning pro was his only dream. Then, at the age of eighteen, driven to despair by his own unremitting mediocrity, he gave up. But he never stopped dreaming about it
- what was he missing out on? How good or bad had he really been? Had it really been a wasted youth? At last, fifteen years later, he went back. Missing the Boat is the story of his comeback season, on the South Coast of Engl&, in Irel&, & in the glamorous resorts of the Mediterranean. It`s about the yachts, the people, the regattas, & just what it was like to dive back into a world that had become entirely alien. Michael Hutchinson won the Best First Book at the British Sports Book Awards.
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72 HOURS TO FIND HER...` Hits the sweet spot between literary & crime fiction
- Gripping` ERIN KELLY ` For those who love their
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` It was an empty landscape now with huge horizons in every direction, a compressed, steam-rollered desert where man had no place. We lacked the skills to carry out even basic fixes. If the van stopped working we were stuck. No one knew where we were & our last mobile phone signal had been 150 miles away.` Fifty-something & tired of arguing with John Humphrys over the day`s headlines, journalists Geoff Stayton & David Treanor found themselves eagerly volunteering for redundancy. But rather than easing into retirement with the odd round of golf, they decided to buy a van & drive off to Mongolia. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time
- In an epic journey through Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Siberia & across the Gobi desert, they discover more about each other in a few weeks than they did sharing an office for years. Lying in wait are crooked cops, bent border guards & dodgy mechanics, but also welcoming & curious locals, eager to help the pair on their mission.
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